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† imˈpardonable, a. Obs.
Also 6 inp-.
[f. im-2 + pardonable. Cf. F. impardonnable (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. Not to be pardoned, unpardonable.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccclxvi. 598 They shulde soore trespasse..so yt it shulde be inpardonable. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. x. (1739) 56 Both King and People declare it an impardonable crime, by the Common Law. 1797M. Robinson Walsingham I. 40 An act of disobedience which she deemed impardonable.
2. That gives no pardon. rare.
a1625Boys Wks. (1630) 840 Leo the 10 so pilled and polled the..nations..with impardonable pardons, and mercilesse indulgences.
Hence † imˈpardonably adv., unpardonably. (In quot. actively = unforgivingly, mercilessly.)
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. vii. xvii. 379 He..must impardonably condemne the obstinacy of the Jews. |